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GlobalGiving’s second American Open

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Starting October 27th, GlobalGiving will hold its second “American Open Challenge” where 501 c3’s serving U.S. communities can compete with each other by fundraising on the GlobalGiving site.  Projects working in the U.S. will have the opportunity to earn a spot on the GlobalGiving website if they mobilize supporters to raise $4,000 from at least 50 unique donors.  There is also prize money available for the organizations raising the most donors and dollars.

Nominations must be submitted by October 2, and anyone familiar with an organization’s work may make a nomination.

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Published on September 10, 2009 by Amy Sample Ward. 0 Comments

2009 Nonprofit Tagline Awards

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The annual Tagline Awards are back from Nancy Schwartz and the Getting Attention blog.  Your nonprofit or foundation could be one of this year’s Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Award winners!  Enter today.

About the Tagline Awards

A strong tagline does double-duty — working to extend your organization’s name and mission, while delivering a focused, memorable and repeatable message to your base. It’s one of your most effective marketing tools, but the 2008 GettingAttention.org survey showed that 72% of nonprofit organizations don’t have a tagline or rate theirs as performing poorly.

I’m trying to change that with this annual award program, highlighting the best in nonprofit taglines.

For more information, visit this FAQ.

How to Enter

To enter, simply submit this entry form – it will only take a few minutes.

All entrants will receive a free copy of the fully-updated 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report in late 2009. It’s the only complete guide to building your organizations’s brand in 8 words or less — filled with how-tos, don’t-dos and models.

Deadline to enter your organization in the contest is July 31st!

2008 Winners

View the list of winners of the 2008 Nonprofit Tagline Awards (selected by nearly 4,000 voters in the field).

Published on June 30, 2009 by Amy Sample Ward. 2 Comments

BullyingUK wins Innovation Award

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Earlier this month, I posted an interview with John Carnell of BullyingUK.  John mentioned in that interview the current Click, Create and Print area of the BullyingUK website, letting teachers and students, parents and children create their own anti-bullying posters.

What was the order or progression of social media adoption at BullyingUK?
As I said before, social media has been a part of our work since before “social media” was a buzzword.  As the founder and CEO it’s my job to identify technologies and services years in advance of becoming mainstream. I then look at how that technology can be used to further our Anti-bullying work: Click, Create and Print is a perfect example using technology that so far no other charity or business has thought of combing the way we have.

Click, Create and Print is an online poster creater that allows schools to build and print their own posters (saving schools £34,000 so far).  Each poster then has a special barcode that allows a child to snap the code with their mobile phone to download a copy of the poster which they can then share with friends via bluetooth or mms or upload back to the web—creating a perfect circle!

I think this is the first time anyone has created a project that fills in the digital divide in such a unique way—it really is a whole new spin on a very old issue.

John wasn’t the only one to think that BullyingUK was onto something innovative and unique.  The Click, Create and Print project won BullyingUK a TalkTalk Innovation Award!

The website  www.bullying.co.uk/poster   allows any young person to make their own anti-bullying poster. On each poster are two special codes. When snapped with a mobile phone camera they allow the user to access a digital copy of the poster that can then be shared with other young people via MMS or Bluetooth. A second code allows access to the charity’s mobile advice site www.bullying.co.uk .

The project was funded with donations from the family and friends of Ben Vodden, the 11-year-old Sussex schoolboy who killed himself after bullying on the school bus in 2006. So far, more than 10,000 unique posters with a tribute to Ben have been created by schools all over the UK.

John Carnell, founder and CEO  of Harrogate-based Bullying UK said: “We are proud to be recognised by TalkTalk as one of the UK’s most innovative charities. Eighteen months ago we identified QR codes as being key to the uptake of the mobile web and the filling in of another bit of the digital divide. Even if people are in a rush they can snap the code from the poster with their phone and get immediate help from our mobile website.”

Congrats to John and the rest of the team at BullingUK!  Keep up the meaningful and successful work!

Published on November 20, 2008 by Amy Sample Ward. 0 Comments

Millennium Development Goals in Action!

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Originally posted on the NetSquared blog.

WSYA logoThe World Summit Youth Award is a global contest to create inspirational online content promoting the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations to create a humane, just and liveable world.

“The World Summit Youth Award showcases you as young developers and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together on the efforts of reaching the Millennium Development Goals!”

Award Guidelines

The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is the global contest for online or mobile initiatives to raise awareness and help resolve the most pressing global issues.

If you rely on the web for creating culture, overcoming gender inequality, lack of education and access to clean water or to address hunger, poverty, disease and environmental degradation, then you should take part!

There are five categories for online content development, including:

  1. Fight Poverty, Hunger and Disease!
  2. Education for All!
  3. Power 2 Women!
  4. Create your Culture!
  5. Go Green!

To be eligible for the contest, platforms/projects must be led by youth under the age of 30, be fully functional, and accessible online.

The reward in the WSYA contest is primarily global recognition through the UN, invitation to the winners event in Mexico, and networking contacts on a worldwide scale. The last WSYA contest was in 2005; you can read about the three winners on the WSYA site.

Award Timeline

Sept. 2008 – WSYA website relaunch, online application form open for submissions at
http://competition.youthaward.org/reg/reg.asp

Dec. 31, 2008 – Deadline for online submissions (midnight, GMT) at http://competition.youthaward.org/reg/reg.asp

Jan. 15, 2009 – First round of judging to select finalists

Feb. 15, 2009 – Second round of judging to select winners

March 1, 2009 – WSYA winners and finalists announced to the public and media

March –June, 2009 – Winners and finalists showcase projects and get honoured at the WSYA Winners Events and Gala

To learn more about the Youth Award, visit http://youthaward.org

Published on October 14, 2008 by Amy Sample Ward. 0 Comments

Catching up

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After over two weeks of wonderful vacation without internet access, it seems there is much I missed!  Here is a quick list of some things to check out.  Let me know what I left off!

  • Yahoo! Green Award
    Yahoo! is looking for innovative “green mashups” that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. Yahoo! will review the project submissions included in the “Environment” Cause Area of the Project Gallery on the NetSquared web site. Following the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3), Yahoo! will make their final selection.  For more information go to:  http://www.netsquared.org/mashup/yahoogreenaward
  • More talk about Twitter
    Here is a BusinessWeek article about Why Twitter Matters – Be sure to check out the slide show (link at end of article) for more great commentary.
  • Get with open source
    The Nonprofit Open Source Initiative has a great webinar coming up about choosing and using FOSS (free, open source software).  More information is available on their site; you can register with NTEN.
  • Collaboration gets rewarded
    The $250,000 Collaboration Prize from the Lodestar Foundation will reward collaboration between two or more nonprofit organizations working together on the same issue/project.  “The Prize also seeks to build an information base of effective practice models that can be studied and used by academics, nonprofit leaders and grantmakers to inspire and advance their work.”  You can find out more from their site.
  • Myanmar and GIS
    I love seeing Google Earth and mapping technologies at work, and thanks to Brett for pointing me (in my backlog/overwhelming state of emails and RSS) to Direct Relief International’s layer in Google Earth.  Check it out.

I’m sure there is so much else to add to this list.  Leave a comment with everything I missed!

Published on May 19, 2008 by Amy Sample Ward. 2 Comments